Cyber Attack

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:07 am

I guess CNN ran a special in late February, simulating a cyber "terror" attack on the United States.
It's on YouTube - 9 part series - didn't watch it.
But I get the general idea.
Look it up if you want to.

And it'll be pretty damn BAD if your p0rn gets knocked out, people.

So my question for you smart individuals is, by WHEN will we experience some sort of "significant" cyber problem which will lead to the government taking action to attempt to take over the interweb ... for our own good?

2010?
2011?

2047?

20never?

What do you think?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:19 am

I think you're an idiot.

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:21 am

That was bitter.

Don't hand your porn over to the gov without a fight, Mikey.

I'm tellin' ya.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:27 am

2011. Might be real, might be a false flag.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:07 am

Porn is for sinners.

I'm more afraid of losing my weekly email from the DNCC begging for money to beat back the barbarians.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:48 pm

Rack Mike.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:32 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:Coming very soon.

Getting your jerk on while you can? TMI.

pron · Post by **pron** » Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:35 pm

Rack poptart.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:02 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588627,00.html

"This case shows the use terrorists can and do make of the Internet," said U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy. "Colleen LaRose and five other individuals scattered across the globe are alleged to have used the Internet to form a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism, culminating in a direct order to LaRose to commit murder overseas."

It's escalating.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:18 pm

Tom In VA wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588627,00.html

"This case shows the use terrorists can and do make of the Internet," said U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy. "Colleen LaRose and five other individuals scattered across the globe are alleged to have used the Internet to form a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism, culminating in a direct order to LaRose to commit murder overseas."
It's escalating.

Maybe we could get Otis and Katy to infiltrate their group and fuck with their profiles and stuff.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 11:42 pm

Tom In VA wrote:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588627,00.html

"This case shows the use terrorists can and do make of the Internet," said U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy. "Colleen LaRose and five other individuals scattered across the globe are alleged to have used the Internet to form a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism, culminating in a direct order to LaRose to commit murder overseas."
It's escalating.

That email thing is pretty high teck.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:15 am

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valle ... thin-weeks

The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253 bombing on Christmas Day "within weeks," a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday.

That relatively brief timeframe only speaks to how quickly extremist groups have "optimized" the Web and developed a "highly evolved" process by which to develop terrorist networks, added Garry Reid, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism.

"Enabled by 21st-century technology, extremists have optimized the use of Internet chat rooms, Web sites and e-mail chains to spread their virulent messages and reach a global audience of potential recruits," Reid told the Senate Armed Services Committee

It's like listening to a symphony orchestra tune prior to breaking out into a composition.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:06 am

Mikey wrote:I think you're an idiot.

I laughed.

Roger_the_Shrubber · Post by **Roger_the_Shrubber** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:09 am

The Internet allowed extremists to contact, recruit, train and equip the suspect responsible for the attempted Flight 253 bombing on Christmas Day "within weeks," a top Pentagon official told lawmakers Wednesday.

No way a 'phone' couldn't have done the same thing.

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:13 am

Tom gets it.

We're already getting rumblings.

Some "event" that will take place in the not-too-distant future - and then there will be a concerted effort to end the "free" internet as we've known it.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:14 pm

poptart wrote:Some "event" that will take place in the not-too-distant future - and then there will be a concerted effort to end the "free" internet as we've known it.

Yeah, Comcast and the other large conglomerate ISPs have been attempting this for years.

Tom In VA · Post by **Tom In VA** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:33 pm

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Technology ... d=10069484

Ladies and Gentlemen, Jihad Jane.

Perhaps the first POW in the CyberWar Theatre of the War on Terror.

Citizens, Cyber "Militia" as it were, "captured her".

Groups like JawaReport, Quoth the Raven and the YouTube Smackdown Corps claim they had been monitoring LaRose's growing militancy for three years, and watched as the Internet -- particularly YouTube -- fed her fervor.

They also said "Jihad Jane" is not the only one on the Internet that the groups are monitoring.

"There are certainly many others out there who are more eloquent and appear to be more dangerous from the way they talk," a man calling himself Rusty Shackleford told ABC News.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:53 pm

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:12 am

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:48 am

add another

to the pile

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:58 am

Jeebus...RACK Marty!

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:58 am

bwaahaahahaha

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:07 am

Well...I mean...since you got me digging through my archives and all...

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 12:19 pm

Interesting article.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04 ... -taxation/

proposes creating a national framework for the taxation of digital goods and services and imposing a fee to establish and maintain a national public safety wireless broadband network. The Obama administration has a plan to expand online innovation and boost national public safety. And it wants to do it with more taxes and higher fees.

The Obama administration has a plan to expand online innovation and boost national public safety. And it wants to do it with more taxes and higher fees.

"This is a critical and essential public safety need," Kenny (FCC spokeman) said. "And we're confident that people will realize the benefits that the whole nation will gain with the creation of this network for public safety."

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:25 pm

Sudden Sam wrote: Think about it...WTF will we do? No way to access your money, your email, your work, your porn.

It would also keep Mikey from posting his nausea inducing threads as well.

silver lining

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:47 pm

You're right on that point, Sam - our financial overlords the Chinese desire that our economy stays strong.

Cyber terror is far more likely to come from the Middle East, or from a domestic Teabag group...

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 6:43 pm

Martyred wrote:
Sudden Sam wrote: Think about it...WTF will we do? No way to access your money, your email, your work, your porn.
It would also keep Mikey from posting his nausea inducing threads as well.

silver lining

I'd still post them. You just wouldn't see them.

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:10 am

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valle ... rity-bill-

Sounds like a wonderful idea to let Barry take over the internet for only 120 days if he says so.

:|

poptart · Post by **poptart** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:04 am

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... yberscare/

Mr. Lieberman's original bill grants a newly appointed White House cyberczar unprecedented powers
over private companies deemed to be connected in some way to the nation's "critical infrastructure."

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:15 pm

Internet/porn? Small potatoes for malicious cyber attackers.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu ... 02369.html

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:37 pm

hold onto your vhs pron collections. they'll be worth a fortune after armageddon hits.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:00 pm

smackaholic wrote:hold onto your vhs pron collections. they'll be worth a fortune after armageddon hits.

Where's fatspray and 'tard and all the chicken little screamers now?

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:21 pm

Papa Willie wrote:The internet gives more information to governments about it's people than anything else in the world. This is the ONLY reason why governments allowed the internet to start to begin with.

The internet IS a spyware.

Spot on. The internet is the new "opiate of the masses." The so-called free internet is a puppetshow.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:29 pm

mvscal wrote:
Papa Willie wrote:The internet gives more information to governments about it's people than anything else in the world. This is the ONLY reason why governments allowed the internet to start to begin with.

The internet IS a spyware.
Spot on. The internet is the new "opiate of the masses." The so-called free internet is a puppetshow.

Wrong. The Internet is a tool. And like any other tool, it can be used or misused.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 5:31 pm

Just like religion, right? If you think that YOU are the one using this tool...well, you are a tool.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:02 pm

mvscal wrote:Just like religion, right? If you think that YOU are the one using this tool...well, you are a tool.

You could look at religion as a tool of the mind. But to compare religion and the Internet is to draw a false equivalency. The Internet is a physical tool. Everything about it exists in real temporal space. Religion is a fabrication of those who cannot bear to admit that they do not understand the world around them. The Internet is a simple communication tool.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Sun Oct 03, 2010 6:16 am

Papa Willie wrote:Okay - answer this. Do you think it was easier for a government to keep tabs on people before or after the internet. Don't respond to this with "feeling", be logical.

EVERY advance in communication has resulted in government having a greater ability to reach into your life. Conversely, we also have a greater ability to see our government at work than at any time in the history of the Republic. 100 years ago nobody would have given a fuck if the Congressman from some backwater shithole was pushing for pork for his district. Now anybody who wants to know can find out just who is getting how many donations from who and how that is impacting said Congressman's voting. Sadly, most of the people in this country appear to be passive aggressive douche nozzles who don't want to know anything and would rather just be mad at someone.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:55 am

BSmack wrote:100 years ago nobody would have given a fuck if the Congressman from some backwater shithole was pushing for pork for his district.

100 years ago there wouldn't have been any pork for his district, you stupid, dong-slurping toolbag.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:11 am

mvscal wrote:
BSmack wrote:100 years ago nobody would have given a fuck if the Congressman from some backwater shithole was pushing for pork for his district.
100 years ago there wouldn't have been any pork for his district, you stupid, dong-slurping toolbag.

Do you even know where the term "pork barrel" originates from?

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:15 am

BSmack wrote:
mvscal wrote:
BSmack wrote:100 years ago nobody would have given a fuck if the Congressman from some backwater shithole was pushing for pork for his district.
100 years ago there wouldn't have been any pork for his district, you stupid, dong-slurping toolbag.
Do you even know where the term "pork barrel" originates from?

Nobody gives a flying fuck, douchebag.

You can check back in once you have figured out federal spending as percentage of GDP in 1910 vs. 2010 and total federal spending in 1910 adjusted for inflation. Until then you can go fuck yourself.